Attacking a Hero during Wind Walk causes them to take 30% increased damage from Samuro for 3 seconds.

16

Press the Attack

While Advancing Strikes is active, Samuro and his Mirror Images gain 10% Attack Speed every time they Basic Attack, up to 40%.

20

Dance Of Death

Mirror Images use Bladestorm when Samuro does, but for 25% damage.

20

Three Blade Style

Samuro's Mirror Images no longer take additional damage, effecively increasing their health by 50% and their duration is increased to 36 seconds.

20

Wind Strider

Wind Walk's cooldown is reduced by 6 seconds.

20

Blademaster's Pursuit

Advancing Strikes grants an additional 15% Movement Speed for Samuro and his Mirror Images, and its duration is increased by 2 seconds.

Shortcut

Ability Name

Description

Cooldown

Mana Cost

Q

Mirror Image

Teleport a short distance in the direction of the mouse cursor, creating 2 Mirror Images for 18 seconds with 100% of Samuro's current Health that Basic Attack enemies for 9 (+4% per level) damage. Whenever an Image takes damage, it deals that amount of damage to itself, effectively doubling the damage it takes. Maximum 2 Mirror Images can be active at at time. Using Mirror Image removes most negative effects from Samuro.

18

W

Critical Strike

Samuro's next Basic Attack within 8 seconds will be a Critical Strike, dealing 50% increased damage. This also applies to Images, and does not break Wind Walk. Passive: Samuro and his Images deal a Critical Strike on every 4th Basic Attack.

10

E

Wind Walk

Grant Samuro Stealth for up to 10 seconds or until he attacks, uses an Ability, or takes damage. While Stealthed, Samuro's Movement Speed is increased by 25% and he can pass through other units. Remaining stationary for at least 1.5 seconds while Stealthed grants Invisible. Samuro is Unrevealable for the first 1 second of Wind Walk.

15

R

Bladestorm

Cause a Bladestorm of destructive force around Samuro for 4 seconds, making him Unstoppable and dealing 235 (+4% per level) damage per second to nearby enemies.

Developer Comment: It's not too surprising that Way of Illusion has
dominated Samuro's Level 1 tier since it adds the most direct teamfight power
due to buffing his Basic Attack damage. Rather than nerf it further, we're
looking to instead buff up its competing options, which should also add some
synergies to his later talent tiers, and hopefully create more diversity on
other tiers.

2018-12-19 Balance Update v 2.41.2

Hero Updates

Abilities

Illusion Master (R)

Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds

No longer grants Samuro bonus Basic Attack damage

Talents

Level 1

Way of Illusion (Q)

Bonus Attack Damage per quest stack reduced from .5 to .25

Developer Comment: Samuro has become a bit of a nuisance for many
players to deal with, particularly when playing against people who are
competent in using Illusion Master. We're reducing the power of Way of
Illusion and Illusion Master, which should generally reduce the overall damage
that Samuro can deal throughout the game.

2018-05-22 Patch Notes v 2.33.0

Bug Fixes

Zul'jin: Using Guillotine with the Buzzsaw Talent to kill Nova's Holo Decoys or Samuro's Mirror Images no longer grants Healing.

2018-03-27 Patch Notes v 2.31.0

Bug Fixes

Alarak: Rite of Rak’shir can no longer be removed when Samuro casts Mirror Image or Chen casts Storm, Earth, Fire.

Samuro: Casting Mirror Image now correctly clears any Move commands that had been queued for the real Samuro.

2018-03-21 Balance Update v 2.30.6

Bug Fixes

Samuro: Fixed an issue causing the Quest Complete fanfare to play every time Mirror Images was cast after choosing the Way of Illusion talent.

Samuro: Fixed an issue with the Three Blade Style talent that prevented Mirror Images from gaining bonus health.

2018-03-06 Patch Notes v 2.30.4

Bug Fixes

Samuro:Can no longer swap places with a Mirror Image that is in the allied Hall of Storms.

After some consideration, we believe this tactic can make for clever plays and have decided to revert this change.

Samuro: Mirror Images now correctly play Level Up and Quest Completion visual effects when Samuro levels up or completes a quest.

2018-01-09 Patch Notes v 2.29.7

Hero Updates

Stats

Base Maximum Health increased from 1650 to 1725

Health Regen increased from 3.4 to 3.6

Abilities

Mirror Image (Q)

Image Health increased from 825 to 862.5

Image Health Regen increased from 1.7 to 1.8

Talents

Level 4

Deflection (Trait)

Armor increased from 25 to 30

Level 7

Burning Blade (W)

Damage bonus decreased from 65 to 50%

Phantom Pain (W)

Damage bonus increased from 40 to 45%

Crushing Blows (W)

Cooldown reduction increased from 1.5 to 1.75 seconds

Developer Comment: Samuro’s rework has put him in a good position
regarding his talent pick and win rates, as well as his overall performance.
In addition to some talent tuning changes, we decided to slightly increase his
Health to compensate for the fact that he now has to put himself into
dangerous positions much more often to deal damage.

Bug Fixes

Samuro: Illusion Master can no longer be cast while Samuro is airborne after being hit by an effects like Junkrat’s Concussion Mine detonation.

Samuro: Issuing a Hold Position command to Samuro’s Mirror Images and then selecting one of them will no longer cause the others to cancel the Hold Position command.

2017-12-13 Hotfix Patch v 2.29.4

Bug Fixes

Samuro: Fixed an issue which allowed Mirror Image to be cast during Bladestorm.

2017-12-12 Patch Notes v 2.29.3

Design & Gameplay

Stealth

Stealth players will now become “Invisible” after remaining still for 1.5 seconds.

Invisible Heroes will not display the Stealth visual effect and can still be removed from Stealth by taking damage. This includes Heroes under the effects of temporary Stealth effects such as Samuro’s Windwalk or Tyrande’s Shadowstalk.

Additionally, Heroes cannot become Invisible while occupying a capture point, such as Braxis Holdout or Mercenary Camp Beacons. Instead, they will retain normal Stealth visual effects.

Hero Updates

Stats

Basic Attack damage increased from 88 to 110

Abilities

Mirror Image (Q)

Samuro will now appear in the direction of the player’s Mouse Cursor when Mirror Image is cast.

Mirror Image damage is no longer a fraction of Samuro’s Attack Damage. Mirror Image base damage has been greatly reduced to 9.

Mirror Images are no longer instantly destroyed by Structures

Critical Strike (W)

Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds

Illusion Master (R)

New functionality:

Reduce the cooldown of Advancing Strikes to 8 seconds

Now increases the attack damage of Mirror Images by 100%

Now also increases Samuro’s Basic Attack damage by 10%

Image Transmission (Trait)

Additional functionality:

Activate to switch places with the target Mirror Image, removing most negative effects from Samuro and the target Mirror Image. 25-second cooldown.

Talents

Tooltips for various talents have been updated to reflect whether Samuro or his Mirror Images benefit from their effects

Level 1

Way of the Wind (E)

New Functionality: Gain 40% Movement Speed for 3 seconds upon entering or exiting Stealth by using Wind Walk

2017-02-08 Hotfix Patch v 23.2

Bug Fixes

Kael'thas: Fixed an issue that could cause Pyroblast’s targeting indicator to persist indefinitely when targeting a Hero as they become Unrevealable.

2017-01-27 Balance Update v 23.1

Bug Fixes

Samuro: Monkey King Samuro’s Mirror Images will no longer use a different skin variation than the real Samuro.

2017-01-24 Patch Notes v 23.0

Bug Fixes

Raynor: Killing Samuro’s Mirror Images after learning A Card To Play will no longer reduce Raynor’s Heroic Ability cooldowns.

Structures: Fixed an issue in which the Core could continue to reveal enemy Stealth Heroes in a small radius outside its intended reveal range.

2017-01-04 Patch Notes v 22.5

Bug Fixes

Samuro: Casting Mirror Image after learning Way of Illusion will no longer cause a Talent Quest progress sound to play.

Samuro: Fixed an issue that could cause certain Hero Abilities and Summons to continue tracking the primary Samuro after casting Mirror Image.

Samuro: The cooldown for Critical Strike will no longer stop counting down when he is killed.

2016-12-20 Balance Update v 22.4

Bug Fixes

Cursed Hollow: Attempting to gather a Tribute using a cloned Hero, such as Mirror Image or Ultimate Evolution, will no longer prevent players from gathering that Tribute.

2016-12-14 Patch Notes v 22.3

Design & Gameplay

Unrevealable Heroes

Heroes who are considered unrevealable will no longer shimmer like other stealthed heroes.

After the unrevealable period ends, they will shimmer again.

Bug Fixes

Samuro: The tooltip for Mirror Image now properly mentions that activating the Ability will remove certain negative status effects.

2016-12-06 Balance Update v 22.2

Hero Updates

Abilities

Wind Walk (E)

Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds

Bladestorm (R)

Damage per second reduced from 250 to 235

Talents

Level 1

Way of the Blade (W)

Critical Strike bonus damage reduced from 25 to 20%

Level 4

Mirage (Q)

Spell Block mitigation amount reduced from 50 to 40% per charge

Developer Comments: Samuro has fallen into a much better spot since
our last changes but still has a handful of over-performing talents. We feel
that these changes are much lighter than the last round of nerfs and should
bring Samuro even closer to the coveted 50% win-rate.

2016-11-22 Hotfix Patch v 22.1

Bug Fixes

2016-11-15 Patch Notes v 22.0

Design & Gameplay

Abilities that reveal Stealthed/Cloaked Heroes will no longer remove the Stealth/Cloak effect, but will instead temporarily reveal the cloaked Hero.

The following talents now function while under the effects of Stealth granted by another player (ex: Tyrande’s Shadowstalk):

Nova

Tactical Espionage

Advanced Cloaking

Covert Ops

Samuro

Way of the Wind

Harsh Winds

Developer Comments: Some revealers, like Oracle from Tassadar and now
Scouting Drone, are very binary in their ability to reveal Heroes, by design.
But their purpose is to provide scouting and position of the enemy, and not to
negate the effects of Talents or Abilities that rely on Stealth to provide
their benefit. While examining these conditional Talents, we decided that it
would be more interesting to allow synergies between external sources of
Stealth these Talents. We like that choices like Tyrande’s Shadowstalk or
Medivh’s Invisibility become more interesting if you have allies that gain
additional benefits from Stealth on your team.

Bug Fixes

Samuro: Mirror Image Health bars will now reflect the number of Doubloons that Samuro is carrying on Blackheart’s Bay.

Developer Comments: While there are a lot of knobs for us to turn in
order to help bring Samuro’s win rate more in line, we felt that his damage
output (especially burst) was where we wanted to start first. We are happy
with his survivability options and feel his fantasy should cater towards being
elusive. We also realize that damage and confusion are really all he brings to
a team, so we wanted to be careful with the changes. We feel that these small
tweaks to his damage (and the fact that they compound on each other) will
cause a reasonable drop in his win rate and will continue to closely monitor
him.

2016-10-25 Balance Update v 21.1

Hero Updates

Stats

Base Maximum Health decreased from 1750 to 1650

Base Health Regen decreased from 3.64 to 3.44

Abilities

Mirror Images (Q)

Cooldown increased from 16 to 18 seconds

Mirror Image timed life increased from 16 to 18 seconds

Wind Walk (E)

Movement speed bonus reduced from 30 to 25%

Illusion Master (R)

Illusion damage bonus reduced from 20 to 15%

Talents

Level 20

Three Blade Style (R)

Mirror Image timed life increased from 32 to 36 seconds

Developer Comments: The Blademaster has been loosed, and is busy
carving up a healthy win-rate. We are looking to bring him down a notch with
these changes.

Bug Fixes

Samuro – Fixed an issue causing Mirror Images to deal an extra swing of Samuro’s full damage if their attacks landed just as the Mirror Images expired.

2016-10-18 Patch Notes v 21.0

New Hero

Samuro, the last remaining blademaster to wear the banner of the Burning
Blade, is on a warrior’s pilgrimage in search of vengeance and redemption for
this fallen clan. It will be a long journey, but he has sworn an oath to
restore his clan’s honor.

Enter Stealth for up to 8 seconds or until you attack, use an Ability, or take damage. While Stealthed, your Movement Speed is increased by 30% and you can pass through other units.

Damage taken during the first 1 second will not break Wind Walk.

Heroic Abilities

Bladestorm (R)

Become an unstoppable whirlwind, dealing moderate damage to nearby enemies every second for 4 seconds.

Illusion Master (R)

Switch places with the target Mirror Image.

Passive: You can control Mirror Images separately or as a group, and they deal an additional 20% of your damage.

Bug Fixes

Damage Reduction: When two damage reduction effects, such as Resistant (25%) and Hardened Shield (75%), are simultaneously applied to a Hero, the larger effect will no longer be overridden by the lesser effect.